Block 2 – Horror and the Senses 10:30 AM
Eric Guignard Sense Impressions and the Literary Techniques Used to Evoke Them
Melissa Kaufler Lana Del Rey: Gothic Princess of Hauntography
85 Janet Holden We’re All Alone Out Here: Isolation and its Contribution to Space Horror in Film

Lunch 12:00 PM

Block 3 – Monsters, Part I: The Literary Monster 1:00 PM
Elizabeth Bobbitt The Mist of Death is On Me: The Horror of Ann Radcliffe’s Unexplained Supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville
Audrey Fessler The Shifting Locus of Horror in Stoker’s “The Squaw”
Nicholas Diak Perfection is a Process: Intertextuality between Herbert West-Reanimator and Dynamite Comics’Re-Animator series
Rocky Colavito Et Up and Spit Out: Socio-politics, Literary Traditions, and World War Z (the book, not the movie!)

Block 4 – Monsters, Part II: Classic to Modern Monsters 2:30 PM
Anthony Gambol Monsters
Kent Pettit Medieval and Modern Godfathers of Ghouls: William of Newburgh and George A. Romero as Subversive Sages for Turbulent Times Film
Michele Brittany Unwrapping the Linens: Defining the Cinematic Mummy and Its Role in Popular Culture Film